Why should people care about text and Speech Processing technologies?

地点: 清华大学信息科技大楼1-315室

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Should researchers and students choose Text and Speech Processing as their research area over other areas? Why do companies like Microsoft spend billions of dollars in R&D of Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing? In this talk, I will provide a historical aspect of why Microsoft started R&D in Text and Speech Processing, how these technologies got deployed into mainstream Microsoft products and finally what products and features you can expect to be benefited from continuing development of these technologies. There are unbounded applications and potential benefit Text and Speech Processing technologies can bring to millions of users

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon is the assistant managing director of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) . He is supervising research in speech, natural language processing, web search, data mining, system, audio/video indexing retrieval and other related areas. Before joining MSRA, Dr. Hon was the Architect in Speech.Net at Microsoft Corporation. Besides overseeing all architectural and technical aspects of the award winning Microsoft？ Speech Server product (VSLive! Editor Choice Award), Natural User Interface Platform and Microsoft Assistance Platform, he is also responsible for managing and delivering statistical learning technologies for Natural Interactive Service Division (NISD). Dr. Hon joined Microsoft Research as a senior researcher at 1991 and has been a key contributor of Microsoft's SAPI and speech engine technologies. Before joining Microsoft, Dr. Hon worked at Apple Computer, Inc., where he was a principal researcher and technology supervisor at Apple-ISS research center. Dr. Hon led the research and development for Apple's' Chinese Dictation Kit, which receives excellent reviews from many industrial publications and a handful of rewards, including Comdex Asia'96 Best software product medal, Comdex Asia'96 Best of the Best medal and Singapore National Technology award. Dr. Hon received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University; and M.S. & PhD degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. While at CMU, Dr. Hon is the co-inventor of CMU SPHINX system on which many commercial speech recognition systems are based on, including Microsoft and Apple. .Dr. Hon is an international recognized speech technologist and has published more than 90 technical papers in various international journals and conferences. He is currently a senior member of IEEE and an associated editor for IEEE Transaction of Speech and Audio Processing. He has also been serving as chairs and reviewers for many international conferences and journals. Dr. Hon holds 35 patents in various technical areas.

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